St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-08
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The visiting committees which have
been sent out by the carpenters, and
Which the contractors call walking
delegates" fired their reports at Secre-
tary Blakeley's desk, while Messrs.
Bolter, Huntington, johnson and others
OF the striking committee held down
their seats in the union headquarters
yesterday forenoon. These reports led
one to believe that the walking dele
gates were getting in their work with
considerable success. 1t was stated that
George Grant didn't have man left at
North st. Paul, and that his foreman,
Louis LayaHe, employed on De CoSter &
Clark's building, on jackson street, had
quit, with. another man. Contractor
Brand was said. to have complied with
jobs of the North st. Paul Land com
pany, and the building of the
Harris Manufacturing company. His
men were reported to be all working
nine hours at ten hours pay. All the
carvers at BjOrnstad's sash, door and
blind factory, OH Rice street, were said
to have gone out, and it was reported
that the turner's would be out to-day.
Twelve men of Costello, on st.
Anthony hill job, packed tools. Later
the report came in that Costello was
left with only two men. at the st.
Paul Furniture company's the COM
no sooner had they tried to
police patrol arrived on the scene, and
the committee disappeared simulta-
neously, making for the sidewalk out
side OF the premises. Another visit was
made afterward, but to the members of
the firm instead of the men. A report
said all the carpenters in the employ of
the Bohn Manufacturing company had
gone out, and the carvers and turner's
would quit to-day. Four men left St.
Anthony hill job of Contractor Schmidt,
and two men stopped work at Bran d
Grabe's, on University avenue, and the
foreman and others of the crew
cOrding to the committees statement.
Seven more men, it was said, had quit
COrlieS, Chapman & Drake, and all the
bricklayerS quit on Baumeister's Sev-
enth street fill job, because they
wouldn't work along with ''scabs." The
st. Croix Lumber company shops are
working on the nine-hour principle, and
Hill Bros, on Burr street, were work.
ing their men on ten hours pay. The
five men working for Nicolson Bros, on
Dayton avenue, were working nine
hours and getting ten hours pay,
Thirty-one men left one of Smiths Jobs
at the fish hatchery, and five men quit
anderson, on Reaney street, at noon.
Twenty-Five men came in from Merriam
Park. In West st. Paul most of the
jobs are small, but the 'sbosses''
were said to be in sympathy with
the nine-hOur rule. The number which
left Bohn is put down as thirty. All
the men were working ten hours at
William Maderfield's, on Fairfield ave-
nue.. Two men came in from Bostrum's
repairing job on Fourteenth street in
the afternoon. Five men laid off on
Carlson's job on the Dayton Avenue
Presbyterian church, eight left Johnson
Bros. in the morning, while all of Kings
ley & Spence's men were said to have
quit at o'clock yesterday afternoon. A
report said all of Hennessey & Coy's
men had quit at South st. Paul, and
that the contractors were picking up
men off the streets, whether they were
carpenters or not. At Deering's build
ing the committee couldn't get at the
men.